Society’s move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say – fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins. The Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) experts looked back over hospital records in England since the Millennium. Procedures to remove foreign objects, including coins, from children’s throats, airways and […]
Ricardo Martinelli has been convicted of money laundering in his native Panama and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Panama’s government has approved safe passage for embattled former President Ricardo Martinelli to leave the country for Nicaragua, after facing prison for money laundering. Foreign Affairs Minister Javier Martinez-Acha Vasquez announced on Thursday that Martinelli would […]
Amazon’s longtime head of film and television, Jennifer Salke, is stepping down from her position after seven years on the job, the company said on Thursday, a sudden move that shakes up the top ranks of the streaming giant. Ms. Salke will move into a producing deal at Amazon and will not be replaced, Mike […]
President Trump and his supporters have clashed with mainstream economists for years about the merits of tariffs. Now, the world will get to see who is right, as the president’s sweeping levies on automobiles and auto parts play out in a real-time experiment on the global economy. In Mr. Trump’s telling, tariffs have a straightforward […]
A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement who has helped shape Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s thinking on a possible link to autism has joined his department to work on a study examining the long-debunked theory, according to people familiar with the matter. The new analyst, David Geier, has published numerous articles in the […]
Sky has said 2,000 call centre jobs are at risk under plans to move more of its customer service online. The media and telecoms company plans to close three of its 10 UK customer service centres, it said on Thursday, citing changing consumer preferences and declining call volumes. The planned cuts – which would see […]
Tom Espiner Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images The UK will not be “jumping into a trade war” with the US over Donald Trump’s plans to place 25% import taxes on cars entering America, the prime minister has said. The government is trying to avoid tariffs, set to come into effect on 2 April, through […]
Many footballers like to market themselves as one-offs; few truly are. Craig Johnston, however, is the exception. The Australian won five English league titles and a European Cup at Liverpool in the 1980s but his football achievements are perhaps the least remarkable thing about him. He is an engineer and a businessman; a chart-topping musician; […]
Esme Stallard Climate and science reporter Jonah Fisher Environment correspondent Getty Images Water companies released raw sewage into England’s rivers and seas for a record 3.61 million hours last year, a slight increase on 2023. The data released by Environment Agency on Thursday showed that although the number of spills was down each spill lasted […]
The Sundance Film Festival is venturing to a new ski town. After a year of deliberations, copious site visits and scores of plane rides, the board of the Sundance Institute has chosen Boulder, Colo., to host its film festival beginning January 2027. “Boulder is a tech town, a college town, it’s a really creative town,” […]